Agile project management is a non-linear approach to organizing and carrying out the delivery of a project through its lifecycle. This approach involves breaking larger goals into smaller tasks that are more manageable, easier to accomplish, and simpler to tweak & adjust as required during the course of the project. This enables teams to accomplish the smaller tasks quickly and easily, compared to taking the pressure of accomplishing bigger, more ambitious goals which would not just take more time and effort but can also get tedious and tiring. Breaking the bigger goals into smaller tasks also helps corrective action and mitigation measures can be implemented sooner, ensuring adjustments get made to keep up with any errors made, changes in consumer demands, scope change, or change creep, etc., and continue moving towards the desired project outcomes. 

Apart from this, agile project management encourages collaboration. When a bigger goal is broken down into smaller tasks, there are a lot of different people and different teams who would be working on these smaller tasks, which would together influence the overall outcome of the project. Most times, the tasks accomplished by one team would help another team accomplish their task or influence their outcomes in some way since the smaller tasks would be correlated, being a part of the same bigger goal.

Benefits of Agile project management

We hope you now have a much better understanding of agile project management and it will help you with your work or inspire you to learn more about it. You can enroll for Cognixia’s live online instructor-led project management training and certification course or you can also sign up for our Certified Scrum Master training, which is also live online and instructor-led.